British Army officer called a 'P***' and 'told to go home' after Brexit vote

US President Donald Trump faces accusations of racism after he suggested four female Democratic politicians - who are all non-white US citizens - should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”

A former officer in the British Army says he has repeatedly been called a P*** and told to go home, after the UK voted for Brexit.

Until 2016, the year of the EU referendum, Nino Singh Judge says he had not been told to "go home" for decades. Born in Tanzania to family of British-Indian descent, he moved to the UK in 1978 from Zambia.

Mr Judge's comments come as US President Donald Trump faces accusations of racism after he suggested four female Democratic politicians - who are all non-white US citizens - should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”. Three of the women were born in the US and one was born in Somalia, but came to the US as a child.

Mr Judge told Press Association: "Back in the 1970s it was quite common, you would be chased down the street by thugs asking why you didn't just go home."

He added: "It was said less and less in the 1980s and 1990s. It reached a point where I almost forgot that the sentiment existed."

However, Mr Judge believes things are "going backwards to the bad old days", claiming that he has been "told 'P***, go home' more times since the Brexit vote than in the 10 years before that".

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Mr Judge, who served in the Army for six years, said: "It just makes you feel not wanted in a country that you have embraced as your home. I would have given my life for my country during my time in the Army - I still would.

"What's worse is it is happening to my children."

Mr Judge said his twin girls told him recently that they did not want to join in celebrating India day at school: "They didn't want to stand out, they just wanted to blend in."

The veteran is just one of thousands of immigrants living in the UK, and one of many from minority backgrounds who say they have been told by members of the public to leave the country they call home.

Discussion of the racist trope resurfaced after US President Donald Trump tweeted telling four female Democratic politicians - all US citizens - to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came".

The impending row saw Congress vote to denounce Mr Trump's comments as racist, though the president has since insisted he does "not have a racist bone in my body".

Covering the story, BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty, who herself is of Indian and Mauritian heritage, spoke out against the phrase, saying: "Every time I have been told, as a woman of colour, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism."

Police officer Serita Blake told PA that despite living in the UK her entire life, she has still been told to "go home" by members of the public.